n. - To those who go

names for their different kinds of food are Yuca, Casabi, and Ignami; and
that the word for a man of great wisdom is Carabi. He describes a village
with forty-four large huts built over the water on poles, like a little Venice.
After sailing for eighty leagues along the coast he came to another
province, of which he gives the name. It is Parias in the Latin version, but in
the Italian version L has been substituted for P, and a b for s, so that the
word becomes Lariab. Then comes the audacious assertion to which all this
was leading. He says that he sailed along the coast, always on a N.W. course,
for 870 leagues. At the end of this marvellous voyage he came to "the finest
harbour in the world", where he found a friendly people, and remained to
refit for thirty-seven days. Here the natives complained that they were
subject to attacks from savage people who came from islands at a distance of
about 100 leagues to the east. The Spaniards agreed to chastise the islanders,
and after sailing N.E. and E. for 100 leagues they came to islands where the
natives were called Iti. They had an encounter with them, in which one
Spaniard was killed and twenty-two were wounded. But they took 222
prisoners, and sold them as slaves when they returned to Cadiz on October
15th, 1498.
Vespucci's account of the second voyage is that the expedition, consisting
of three ships, sailed from Cadiz on May 16th, 1499, and stopped some days
at the island of Fuoco. They then crossed the ocean after a voyage of fortyfour
days, going over 500 leagues on a S.W. course. The landfall was in 5°
S., and the country was inundated by the mouths of a great river. They then
steered north, and came to an excellent port formed by a large island. He
describes the chase of a canoe, manned by cannibal people called Cambali;
and the intercourse with inhabitants who told them about the pearl fishery.
They next landed on an island, fifteen leagues from the land, where the
inhabitants, for want of water, chewed a green herb mixed with white